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Research opportunities for argumentation in social networks

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Nowadays, many websites allow social networking between their users in an explicit or implicit way. In this work, we show how argumentation schemes theory can provide a valuable help to formalize and structure on-line discussions and user opinions in decision support and business oriented websites that held social networks between their users. Two real case studies are studied and analysed. Then, guidelines to enhance social decision support and recommendations with argumentation are provided.

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  1. This paper presents an extended and corrected version of the work published at Heras et al. (2010a, b)

  2. Debategraph: http://debategraph.org/.

  3. Debatepedia: http://wiki.idebate.org/.

  4. OVA at ARG:dundee:  www.arg.dundee.ac.uk.

  5. Web Ontology Language (OWL):  http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/.

  6. Semantically-Interlinked On-line Communities (SIOC) project: http://sioc-project.org/.

  7. Resource Description Framework (RDF):  http://www.w3.org/RDF/.

  8. The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project:  http://www.foaf-project.org/.

  9. Wikipedia: Social software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software.

  10. This example is an adaptation of real posts on Amazon.

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This work summarises results of the authors joint research, funded by an STMS of the Agreement Technologies COST Action 0801, by the Spanish government grants [CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00022, and TIN2012-36586-C03-01] and by the GVA project [PROMETEO 2008/051].

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  1. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 , Valencia, Spain

    Stella Heras, Vicente Botti & Vicente Julián

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Ashton St, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Katie Atkinson & Floriana Grasso

  3. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    Peter McBurney

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Heras, S., Atkinson, K., Botti, V. et al. Research opportunities for argumentation in social networks. Artif Intell Rev 39, 39–62 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-012-9389-0

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